Chapter 147: The battle escalates and is frequently injured

Seeing the chaos of the foreign army outside the city, the defenders in the city went out of the city in time to attack, shouting and killing, the sound of guns and cannons rumbled, and the foreign army was in chaos and quickly left behind the corpses and wounded, and some of the men and horses who had not had time to break through the siege fled in panic.

The first battle was a great victory, the reward of the capital soon came down, and for a while, the morale of the Boxers and the defenders was greatly boosted, and their fighting spirit was high, and they couldn't wait to fight with the foreign army in the dark.

It's just that their good days are coming to an end, and I don't know if it's because of the loss of thousands of people in the first battle, or if the follow-up men and horses from the foreign coalition army are just coming, and a few days later, the offensive and defensive battle of Jinmen will start again, and the intensity and intensity will rise several levels compared to before.

The roar of artillery is earth-shattering, and the bullets are flying like a storm!

The foreign army showed a strong firepower, and in only half a day, all the fortifications on the periphery of Jinmen were lost, and the city wall of Jinmen was also crumbling under heavy artillery fire.

At the same time, the casualty figures of both the officers and the Boxers increased rapidly, with more than 5,000 casualties in one day, and both sides were stunned.

Fortunately, Lei Hu saw the opportunity quickly, and saw the fierce firepower of the foreign army, so he immediately ordered his subordinates to evacuate the Zizhulin Concession, not to follow the crazy foreign army, but even so, the casualties were still more than 1,000.

Not only did his brothers suffer heavy casualties, but even Lei Hu himself hung up the lottery.

When he was evacuating, he was accidentally targeted by a small foreign army, and his arm was bitten by a bullet in the rain of bullets.

At that time, Lei Hu's heart was alarmed, and at the moment when the bullet bit his arm, the muscles and bones of the entire arm were instantly linked, and he couldn't help but tremble, as hard as steel and full of toughness, so that the powerful rifle bullet was stuck in the muscles and flesh without hurting the bones.

Directly pulled the bullet out of his arm, and ordered his Boxer brothers to evacuate quickly without caring about the severe pain, avoiding greater casualties.

The casualties of the officers and soldiers were heavy, with losses of more than 3,000 in one day, almost not destroyed by the ferocious artillery fire, and the morale was extremely low when the sun set.

Not to mention being disabled, at least the heart was beaten to the dust, Dong Fuxiang and Nie Shicheng, the two military gates, don't know if they can hold on tomorrow.

Fortunately, Lei Hu helped them a lot, commanding three thousand reserves that night, first using the wolf smoke method to let the foreigner barracks enjoy the wonderful taste of smoke and fire for a while, and then harassing the gongs and drums for half the night, and when the sky was about to dawn, it suddenly launched, and the three thousand men and horses rushed with all their strength, and suddenly broke through the foreigner barracks that were tossed and exhausted.

Lei Hu just took a short rest and then charged forward, a long root in the hand invincible, the stick shadow continued to howl in the wind, and the foreigner sergeants along the way either exploded their heads or broke their bones and tendons, and forcibly created a bloody and cruel passage of death and injury, which was fierce and hideous to the extreme.

Dense gunfire and mournful shouts broke the silence of the morning light, and the entire camp of the foreign army was in chaos, and the Boxers who bravely rushed into the camp and the depressed foreign soldiers engaged in the most bloody and crazy hand-to-hand combat, and a large number of men and horses fell on both sides in a short time.

This battle of stealing the camp lasted for an hour, seeing that the sky was bright and the foreigners slowly came to their senses, and gradually formed a small-scale musket force to strangle the Boxers who rushed into the camp, as the casualties continued to increase, Lei Hu felt the pressure, and with a wave of the long stick in his hand, several foreigner sergeants screamed and fell to the ground, shouting loudly to command the Boxers to evacuate quickly.

It's just a pity that the officers and troops in the city didn't come out in time to attack, otherwise the results of this stealing camp would be even greater, and maybe they could beat this wave of thousands of foreigners back.

Evacuated to a safe place and carefully counted the number of people, there were 1,300 fewer boxers, and Lei Hu believed that even if the losses on the foreigners' side were not so large, they were definitely not small.

He was also helpless, the musket unit of the Boxer Regiment was formed too late, even if there were young people from the Chancheng Militia to join as middle and low-level officers, their combat effectiveness was not the same as that of the foreign army.

On the contrary, the Boxer boxers practiced martial arts one by one, and if they fought hand-to-hand with the foreign army, not to mention how much advantage they had, it was not difficult to fight without distinguishing between the top and the bottom, and the number of foreign sergeants who were killed and injured in such hand-to-hand combat was not a few.

It's just that the foreign army has many firearms and is well defended, and it is not so easy to find opportunities for hand-to-hand combat.

After two days of hard fighting, and two extremely effective sneak attacks hand-to-hand combat, I think that the foreign army will definitely have prevention, and it will be difficult to find such an opportunity in the future.

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As the Eight-Nation Coalition Army gradually took shape, a steady stream of foreign soldiers came by ship from the sea, and the fighting in the Jinmen area became more and more tragic.

First of all, the defenders of the Qing army in Jinmen failed to hold it, and it lasted for about ten days, and the defense of Jinmen was broken in the artillery, and even senior generals like Nie Shicheng were directly killed.

The Jinmen was broken, and Dong Fuxiang led a remnant of the defeated army to flee from the city in panic, and it was safe to be received by the Boxers outside the city.

During this period, the Boxers organized and mobilized half of the residents in the city to evacuate, and half of the residents were either reluctant to have their own altars and jars at home, or did not react to the war in the slightest, thinking that who was the boss of Tianjin was not the same, and it had nothing to do with them as ordinary people.

In order to organize the evacuation of the people in the city, Tan Sitong's voice was almost hoarse, but unfortunately the final result was not satisfactory to him.

"It's going to rain, and my mother is going to get married, so let them go!"

Lei Hu didn't care, these days he has to command the Boxers to harass and attack the foreign sergeants, and on the other hand, he has to help organize the evacuation of the people in the city, he really has no skills and no time to pay attention to these stubborn people, so he just let them go and let them fend for themselves.

After the city was broken, the foreign army who were holding back their anger did not mention how they were abused, and after resting for two days, they fought out of the city and quickly advanced along the railway line in the direction of the capital.

Lei Hu naturally did not make them feel comfortable, so the Boxers and the remnants of Dong Fuxiang's defeated troops joined forces to block the railway line layer by layer, preventing the foreign army from controlling the railway, and there was an opportunity to quickly send troops to the capital by train.

The fierce field trench attack and defense battle began, and Lei Hu personally led a mobile team composed of all kung fu masters to roam outside, specifically targeting the logistics supplies of the foreign army, as well as the logistics troops to launch a sneak attack operation, which seriously delayed the pace of the foreign army to enter the capital.

In order to boost morale, not to let the Boxers who were seriously attrition lose their morale, Lei Hu also fought hard, and always rushed forward with arrows and stones, and the bullets of the foreign army were not smooth on the battlefield, killing the generals in the foreign army in fear and did not dare to take the head easily, and he was frequently injured......